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Acorn Menu ⌐ Alan Trewartha 1996
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Å ÉAcorn Menuæ opens directories & runs applications
Click the mouseæs menu button over the window and a
menu drops down with a list of files and a ÉQuitæ.
Simply select an item to run/open a file/directory.
Follow the submenus down the directory structure.
Drag an icon over the window to add it to the menu.
Hold ÉALTæ and select an item to remove it.
Å ÉAcorn Menuæ organises messy windows
Click the action button, É!æ, and all the windows
tile neatly into position. (It tries hard anyway.)
This is the PROCaction in the ÉUseræ library.
Å ÉAcorn Menuæ gives quick information
The window displays one of three different essential
facts at the touch of a radio button - no mucking
about with menus and configurations.
It is set up to show:
1. 12-hour time 2. Date 3. FreeRam
These are set by the FNButtonOne, FNButtonTwo and
FNButtonThree in the ÉUseræ library.
Å Installation
Copy the application to wherever you want. Double
click on the icon to get it running as per usual.
Drag whatever application/directory/program icons you
want over the window. There you go.
Å Window
Hold down ÉCtrlæ and ÉAltæ to float the window to
the top of the stack of windows. This condition is
set by FNfloatkeys in the ÉUseræ library.
Å The ÉUseræ library
The idea of this short program is to make it relatively
easy to personalise for the simple BASIC buff. Please
feel free to do so. Mess around with it all you want.
FNButtonOne, ButtonTwo, ButtonThree
These can pass back any string up to 40 characters long
without any problems, though only a maximum of 13 will
fit in the window.
Å Other stuff
Inside the application folder (hold down ÉSHIFTæ and
double click the icon to open it) is a further folder
called ÉCommandsæ. This contains some simple BASIC
programs that I use. This folder is useful to have on
the menu.
You can of course edit ÉMenuDataæ in your text editor
if you so desire. You can get rid of submenus on an
application by removing the final É.æ and add the root
directory of your hard drive, e.g. ÉIDEFS::Alan.$.æ.
This application is freeware, that is, it can be
distributed freely as long as only reasonable charges
are made for media and distribution. I retain
copyright on all program code and documentation.
Acorn Menu is a much improved version of a similar
program called É!The Menuæ which I also wrote.
Please send any reports of bugs - I have no idea
how it runs on other versions of RISC OS, or on
a decent monitor!
Have you tried my desktop game É!Clumpsæ? Itæs top!
Alan Trewartha
16 Ebbsfleet Road
Cricklewood
London NW2 3NA (telephone 0171 2095924)
(e-mail alant@alant.demon.co.uk)
To do list:
Load the correct sprite file depending on mode.
Check that it works in other modes!
Add icons to the menus (?) like TreeMenHD
Anything else?